ASC Pty Ltd

For the company building the Hunter class frigates for the Royal Australian Navy, see ASC Shipbuilding.

ASC Pty Ltd
FormerlyAustralian Submarine Corporation
IndustryShipbuilding[1]
Founded1985; 39 years ago (1985)[2]
FounderKockums
Chicago Bridge & Iron
Wormald International
Australian Industry Development Corporation
Headquarters
Osborne, South Australia
Key people
Bruce Carter (Chairman)[3]
Stuart Whiley (CEO)[4]
ProductsNaval Vessels[1]
RevenueIncrease >$1 billion[5] (2015)
Increase $29.2 million[6] (2017)
OwnerGovernment of Australia[7]
Number of employees
Over 2,400[2] (2015)
Websitewww.asc.com.au

ASC Pty Ltd, formerly the Australian Submarine Corporation and also known as the Australian Shipbuilding Company, is an Australian government business enterprise involved with Australian naval shipbuilding, headquartered in Osborne, South Australia. It is notable for building and maintaining the Collins-class submarine fleet for the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) and for building three Hobart-class destroyers for the RAN, with the first delivered in mid-2017.

  1. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference NCA was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ a b "ASC – About Us". asc.com.au. Archived from the original on 23 April 2016. Retrieved 26 April 2016.
  3. ^ "Board – About Us – ASC". ASC.
  4. ^ "Executive – About Us – ASC". ASC.
  5. ^ Donnellan, Angelique (3 November 2015). "Adelaide shipbuilder ASC records $22m profit, bouncing back from 2014 loss". ABC News. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 3 November 2015.
  6. ^ Pisani, Ashleigh (1 November 2017). "Hoping to profit from top results". Westside Weekly (Newspaper.). Messenger. p. 11.
  7. ^ "ASC – Board". asc.com.au. Archived from the original on 23 April 2016. Retrieved 26 April 2016.